Financial institutions deal with hundreds to thousands of database schema and message formats, many dealing with the same or related information. The enterprise typically has limited visibility on how that data is connected and how it relates to regulation and industry standards. Manual integration, federation, and analytics are expensive and error-prone. FIBO provides a common vocabulary for finance that is a part of the solution. The open source and software as a service capability being presented takes FIBO from theory to practice while integrating into existing technology infrastructures. See: